PD306: NAVHDA: Natural Ability Tracking Training
Prerequisites: 4 months to 16 months (actually any age, but must be under 16 months to be qualified to Prize in a NAVHDA Natural Ability test.
Course cost and length:
Live: $150.00 6 live sessions
Recorded: $125.00
Purpose: To teach you to train your dog to track wounded game in all conditions and to be prepared for the NAVHDA Natural Ability 
Tracking component.
What you can expect to learn from this Course:
- Understanding NAVHDA Natural Ability Tracking
- Laying a Track
- Dog learns something is “out there.”
- Dog learns to use nose and concentrate on track
- Importance of wind
- Importance of training in varying cover
- Importance of training corners
- Importance of training roads or paths
- Dog learns the difference between “Track” and “Search”
- How to find a test, enter and run your dog in a NAVHDA Natural Ability test.
The NAVHDA Natural Ability Tracking Training course focuses on scenting theories, training techniques, starting a dog on a track, laying a track, equipment used, types of fields to train in, expectations of judging a track in a NAVHDA NA test, and step-by-step instruction to get your dog ready for the Natural Ability test in NAVHDA and the hunting field.
* This course is for those that feel they and/or their dog need extra help learning to concentrate and cooperate on a track. As always, this is only ONE method to train and there are many others that may work just as well.
Instructor:Cheryl Asmus
e-trainingfordogs@comcast.net
Cheryl Asmus is a member of several NAVHDA Chapters: Rocky Mountain, Sandhills and Frontier. She is also a Senior NAVHDA Judge. The NAVHDA offices she have held as a chapter member are: Test Secretary, Training Director, Webmaster and Newsletter Editor. She organized the workers for the 2004 NAVHDA 
Invitational, and has worked at every job during testing including: bird planter, lunches, host judges, pick up or drop off judges, gunner, field marshal, bird steward, etc. She has also helped at the Invitational testing as a Field Marshall.
Cheryl has titled dogs in NAVHDA Natural Ability, Utility and the Invitational. She has also titled dogs at the Senior and Master Hunter level in AKC. Before working with the Versatile Hunting Dog, she had put 2 Tracking Dogs and 2 Tracking Dog Excellent on dogs in addition to teaching Tracking in Lake Elmo, Minnesota many years ago at the Animal Inn. Cheryl also put 4 Companion Dogs on dogs plus 3 Companion Dog Excellent on dogs.
In the 1980’s, she used to train and test in Schutzhund bringing 2 dogs to Schutzhund I and II and one dog to a Schutzhund III. She held the office of training director for the Twin City Working Dog Association for several years in the 80’s. Cheryl has served as the “helper” (bite suit) for the St. Paul and Minneapolis K-9 Police Department in her younger years. The tracking and obedience work are equally as exciting to build in a dog. Most importantly, the instructor, Cheryl Asmus has hunted for over 40 years. She started in the corn fields of North Branch Minnesota chasing hounds in the night after raccoon and sitting on the wheel hub of her uncle’s tractor shooting squirrels out of the trees as they went around harvesting corn or beans in the 60’s. She hunts deer, elk, antelope, waterfowl, varmints and best of all…upland game. As an avid outdoors person who also considers her number one hobby training her dogs, there is nothing more enjoyable to her than hunting behind a great versatile dog. (Outlander German SHorthaired Pointers)
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